Blue Runner
Meet Caranx crysos: identify the hardtail, explore offshore schools and floating Sargassum, work a three-hook sabiki, and discover a Caribbean prep...
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Search the fish, study its habitat and open a dedicated field database. Each file grows from a verified baseline into a complete research record covering biology, distribution, tackle systems and landmark catches.
80 species files
Southern Kingfish
Meet the ground mullet, Menticirrhus americanus: read sandy surf and inlet margins, connect a small-bait rig, and explore its place in coastal cook...
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Snowy Grouper
Read the changing spots, find the offshore ledge, and follow a deep-drop rig from rod tip to sinker: a western Atlantic snowy grouper field guide.
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Blacktail
Meet Diplodus capensis, explore South African rock pools and gullies, work a soft worm on light tackle, and discover blacktail cooking and shore cu...
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Corvina
Meet Cilus gilberti, explore Pacific surf troughs, connect and work a floating minnow, and follow the Chilean shore traditions behind corvina fishing.
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Hogfish
Recognize Lachnolaimus maximus, explore low Gulf ledges, control a shrimp bait on its descent, and discover the changing skin and social life of th...
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Kelp Bass
Recognize Paralabrax clathratus, explore a layered kelp forest, place a paddle tail through canopy openings, and meet the anglers helping study thi...
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Great Hammerhead
Recognize Sphyrna mokarran, explore sand basins and reef passages, prepare for an accidental encounter, and follow the science behind its migration...
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Dusky Flathead
Identify Platycephalus fuscus, explore tidal drains and seagrass edges, connect a soft-plastic rig, and follow the science and human stories of eas...
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Porbeagle
Identify Lamna nasus, explore coastal and offshore habitats, understand regional shark tackle and release practice, and follow the changing science...
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Striped Marlin
Recognize Kajikia audax, explore shelf-edge and offshore habitats, follow a source-led live-bait approach, and discover the science and fishing her...
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Shortfin Mako
Identify Isurus oxyrinchus, explore coastal and offshore habitats, follow a careful encounter-and-release plan, and discover the science and cultur...
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Bigeye Tuna
Identify Thunnus obesus, explore its day-and-night ocean layers, follow a single-hook trolling layout, and discover the research, fisheries and foo...
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Yellow Drum
Meet Nibea albiflora: identify its markings, explore coastal nursery and feeding habitats, understand a single-hook bottom layout, and follow the s...
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Southern Bluefin Tuna
Identify southern bluefin, explore tropical spawning and southern feeding waters, follow a single-hook trolling system, and discover the records, f...
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Japanese Seabass
Identify suzuki, explore river nurseries and coastal feeding lanes, trace a complete shore-minnow connection, and discover the records and food tra...
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European Seabass
Read the two dorsals, explore estuary and open-coast habitats, follow a complete shallow-minnow connection, and discover the migrations and coastal...
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Black Rockfish
Read the head and dorsal, explore three Oregon nearshore habitats, follow a complete single-jig route, and discover the research and coastal kitche...
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Smalltooth Sawfish
Recognize the Atlantic sawfish, explore three life-stage habitats, follow a documented nursery return, and learn the complete accidental-encounter ...
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Houndfish
Meet the long-jawed surface hunter: structural identification, an interactive coastal habitat atlas, a complete spoon-casting lesson and the fish’s...
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Summer Flounder
Meet the Atlantic fluke: field identification, an interactive coastal habitat atlas, seasonal behavior, a complete jigging lesson, named back-bay m...
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Opah
A Pacific opah dossier: species identity, field recognition, a three-scene habitat atlas, heat retention, offshore jigging operations, documented c...
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Flathead Catfish
Meet the broad-headed predator of North American rivers: how to recognize flathead catfish, read woody cover, and assemble a complete slip-sinker b...
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Walleye — The Low-Light Hunter | Species File
Meet Sander vitreus: recognize its fins and white tail tip, read changing lake conditions, and understand a simple jig-and-grub presentation.
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Mangrove Snapper
Meet the gray snapper, Lutjanus griseus: recognition, habitat from mangrove roots to reefs, and clear free-line and knocker-rig connections.
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Great White Shark
Follow a white shark from sandy nursery to rocky island and open ocean: recognition, changing prey, and what California anglers should do during an...
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California Yellowtail
Lead the school, swim the iron, and find the right depth: a California yellowtail guide to recognition, kelp edges, offshore paddies and three prac...
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American Monkfish
A pale lure above a hidden mouth: recognize American monkfish, explore its seabed habitat and drifting egg veil, and understand its place on a grou...
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Chinook Salmon
Read the mouth, find the feeding layer, and understand the downrigger release: a Chinook salmon field guide from Pacific river gravel to Great Lake...
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Papuan Black Bass
A snapper with a freshwater nickname: identify Papuan black bass, read its connected river habitats, and understand hardbait fishing around heavy c...
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King Mackerel
Identify adult and juvenile king mackerel, explore western Atlantic coastal habitats, and compare documented natural-bait and artificial-lure metho...
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Lingcod
A toothy North Pacific ambush predator: how to identify lingcod, read its rocky coastal habitat, and choose a well-supported bait or lure presentat...
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Gray Triggerfish
A small-mouthed reef specialist: identification, five habitat settings, natural bait and microjig techniques, and coastal food traditions.
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Great Barracuda
A source-led field dossier on Great Barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda), following the fish through identification, Florida Keys habitats, documented f...
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Yellowtail Kingfish | Species File
A field dossier for Australia and New Zealand: identification, habitat, two metal-jig approaches, handling, fisheries and aquaculture, and the cult...
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California Halibut
Evidence-led field guide to California halibut (Paralichthys californicus), covering identification, habitat, behavior, regional fishing cases, and...
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Sheepshead
A field dossier on Sheepshead (*Archosargus probatocephalus*): identification, coastal habitat, three sourced rig presentations, foodways and resea...
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Golden Tilefish
Golden Tilefish / Great Northern Tilefish — Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps Goode & Bean, 1879Angler’s one-line briefing: Find the right canyon-f...
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White Marlin
Begin in warm offshore water and watch the upper layer, but earn the identification: a familiar marlin silhouette can conceal a different species.
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Tiger Shark Species File
A source-led field file on Galeocerdo cuvier: verified identification, three distinct habitat contexts, documented natural-bait cases and partial r...
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Black Marlin Species File
Black Marlin Species FileCATALOGUE LIST ROW 046 · S GRADE · SALTWATER · INDO-PACIFICBlack Marlin — Istiompax indica (Cuvier, 1832)Evidence checked:...
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Wahoo
A wahoo turns an apparently simple trolling pass into a test of the whole boat. The lure must run cleanly, the connections must survive continuous ...
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Gag Grouper
Follow this fish from an estuary nursery to a hard-bottom ledge, then put the presentation beside the shelter rather than somewhere above an anonym...
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Bluefish
Bluefish across coastal nursery and feeding habitats: six independent habitat views, source-led bait and lure systems, cutting-teeth identification...
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Red Snapper
A Gulf Red Snapper dossier: five life-stage and structure habitats, source-led natural-bait and slow-pitch systems, and the fish's working-waterfro...
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Yellowfin Tuna
The pelagic yellowfin, with source-bounded popper casting, metal jigging and live-sardine teaching, plus six independent habitat contexts.
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Dogtooth Tuna
The reef-associated Indo-Pacific predator, with source-bounded topwater casting, fast metal jigging, natural-bait teaching and eight independent ha...
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Jack Crevalle
A sourced dossier on Caranx hippos: Atlantic identity, coastal habitat, feeding schools, practical lure connections and fishing culture.
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Sailfish
A sourced field dossier on Istiophorus platypterus: identification, ocean habitat, bill-feeding mechanics, artificial-lure trolling and human conne...
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Pacific Halibut
A North Pacific flatfish dossier: field identification, seasonal habitat, two presentation routes and distinct coastal hook traditions.
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Speckled Trout
A Texas and Gulf seatrout dossier covering identification, estuarine habitat, source-led popping-cork tactics and the fish's regional cultural hist...
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Tautog
A western North Atlantic tautog dossier on field identification, rocky refuges, source-led crab and jig methods, regional records and blackfish cul...
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Atlantic Goliath Grouper
From mangrove nursery to wreck resident: Atlantic goliath grouper identity, habitat, acoustic science and evidence-led angling and release, with ei...
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Blue Marlin
An Atlantic blue-marlin field dossier: identification, open-ocean habitat, research-led crew tactics, a source-checked heavy-trolling rig and the p...
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Bonefish
A western Atlantic bonefish field dossier covering verified records, identification, connected tidal flats, complete fly tackle and presentation, a...
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Wolf Eel
An eastern North Pacific cave dweller through verified scale, identification, rocky habitats, pair guarding, regional angling boundaries and the hi...
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Roosterfish
The eastern Pacific surf predator through verified records, field identification, shallow-water movements, attributed tackle and the shore-fishing ...
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Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
Atlantic bluefin through its verified records, field identification, moving ocean habitats, attributed wind-on tackle and the working tuna culture ...
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Greenland Shark
The Arctic sleeper shark through verified size and age evidence, field identification, deep-water habitats, scientific encounters and Icelandic mar...
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Permit
A source-led field dossier for western Atlantic permit: identification, connected flats and offshore habitat, live-crab and fly presentations, docu...
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Barramundi
A field dossier on Lates calcarifer: identification, tidal habitat, documented Australian-estuary tactics, and the cultural record behind barramundi.
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Largemouth Bass
A field dossier on Micropterus nigricans: identity, habitat lanes, bite mechanics, documented Texas-rig and frog routes, and the culture behind fre...
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Red-bellied Piranha
A field dossier on Pygocentrus nattereri: identification, floodplain habitat, risk-sensitive schooling, simple local bait context, and the culture ...
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Greater Amberjack
A field dossier for Greater Amberjack (Seriola dumerili): identity, habitat topology, documented tactics, cultural context and sources.
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Mahi-Mahi
A research-led tactical dossier for Mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus): identification, Sargassum habitat routes, documented ballyhoo methods, failure...
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Bluntnose Sixgill Shark
A full field dossier on Hexanchus griseus: identification, regional depth behaviour, bite mechanics, deep-water engineering, fishing history and ev...
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Red Drum
A source-led Red Drum field dossier for Texas and the Gulf: identity, shallow-water signals, habitat lanes, rig engineering, failure points, record...
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Milkfish
A tactical field dossier for milkfish / Chanos chanos: field identification, life-cycle habitat, algae-grazing behaviour, fly presentation, rig arc...
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Butterfly Peacock Bass
A species-locked field dossier for Cichla ocellaris: field ID, Florida canal water-column logic, bite kinetics, hardware BOM, combat FMEA, and sour...
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Rainbow Trout
A field-engineered Rainbow Trout dossier: identification, cold-water topology, bite mechanics, tactical BOM and failure-prevention matrix.
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Arapaima
A field dossier for Arapaima gigas: floodplain breathing routes, safe open-lane tactics, historical record context and community-first release ethics.
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Atlantic Tarpon
A field dossier for Megalops atlanticus: tide-reading, air-breathing biology, presentation, jump management and in-water release.
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Giant Tigerfish
A field dossier for Hydrocynus goliath: current seams, teeth-proof tackle, Congo tactics, record context and release-first practice.
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Swordfish: The Vertical Predator
A source-led engineering dossier for swordfish: vertical habitat, two-stage bite mechanics, documented deep-drop BOM and combat FMEA.
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Alligator Gar
A field dossier for Atractosteus spatula: floodplain habitat, delayed-bait tactics, record context and release-first handling.
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Taimen
A field dossier for Hucho taimen: identification, river topology, tactical fly and lure work, record context and release-first handling.
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Giant Trevally
A field dossier for Giant Trevally / Caranx ignobilis: identification, reef-edge habitat, read-water decisions, surface-lure and metal-jig tactics,...
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Cubera Snapper
A field dossier for the Atlantic Cubera: verified scale, field identification, structure-based habitat, read-water decisions, surface-lure and vert...
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Goonch Catfish
A field dossier on Bagarius bagarius: identity, record, habitat topology, water-reading, practical lure and metal presentations, and release-minded...
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Cobia
A director-led field dossier for cobia: identify the fish, find its structure, read the water, then choose the lure, jig and fight plan.
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